We have added support for various TV tuner cards and TV tuner USB sticks to our Linux kernels. That means, it is possible to watch television and listen to the radio with Linux on your X5000 and X1000. It is also possible to record television programs onto a hard disk. There are many TV tuners available for the PCI and PCIe bus. Additionally you can use TV tuner USB sticks with your X5000 and X1000. With a Composite Video input (yellow) you can connect a lot of other devices like video game consoles, video recorders, receivers etc. In this thread, I would like to exchange with you some experiences about various TV tuner devices.

I tested the analog television PCI card WinTV Express with a BT878A chip with my AmigaOne X1000 last week.

The installation was very easy because the new Linux kernels support this TV card without any configuration. Using is very simple with the TV programs TVTime and XawTV on Ubuntu and Debian. I can watch analog cable TV without any problems. I also connected my Nintendo N64 and my Nintendo GameCube via Composite Video to my WinTV PCI card. The performance is very well even if I play fast games on game consoles. You can use Teletext/Videotext with AleVT. It's very fast because it saves all text pages in a cache.

Due to the fact that my Radeon R7 250 is not supported within linux the graphics overlay features do not work. I know the adapter is working. I can scan the channels, and Record them. Recording can be played back so the PCTV NANO is working fine.

- XawTV 3.103-4 added (X11 program for watching and recording television with a TV tuner)- AleVT 1.6.2-5 added (X11 program for browsing and searching Teletext/Videotext)- Radio 3.103 added (A ncurses-based FM radio application)- tvtime 1.0.2 added (A high quality television application for use with video capture cards)